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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Endless
Games
Death
Play
Time
Love

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